Anil Seth, University of Utah (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Anil Seth, University of Utah

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University of Utah astronomer Anil Seth led a new study by an international team that discovered an ultracompact dwarf galaxy named M60-UCD1 is the smallest galaxy known to contain a supermassive black hole, likely because the dwarf galaxy was stripped of its outer stars and material by gravity from the much larger galaxy named M60.

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Janet Iwasa, University of Utah.

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